last update
OK last update. I got up and went to Caesar's today to play the last Mega Stack event before their Main Event which starts tomorrow. It was a $550 buy in with $15,000 starting chips. Really nice structure and a long long tournament. They expected it to last until 5am this morning. I busted out after dinner break at around 9pm and we were still a few hours from the money I think. I think Caesar's may have the best poker room I've seen in Vegas and their tournament area is very nice. Comfrortable chairs, lots of room, bigger than average tables as well. To be fair I haven't sat in any other poker rooms because the Rio tournaments are so big they are using huge conference rooms for the tournaments but I've walked through several smaller casino's poker rooms and none have come close to Caesars. Also I think I like their casino the best. They have the forum shops which are very nice and Casa Fuente is there so thats a bonus as well. They have an awesome SportsBook there that is by far the best I've seen here and some very nice resteraunts. I haven't gone to the night clubs but I know PURE is there and its supposed to be one of the best spots on the strip.
Another thing thats been weird is I bet I've heard 10 different languaes spoken while I've been here and seen more Asians in 1 week than I ever have in my life. I know Asians probably tend to gamble more than anyone but I bet 20% of the people I've seen in Vegas have been Asians.
Tomorrow is an off day. Gordon is back in town and Moki flies out tomorrow evening and I think Marco is free as well so hopefully we're all going to get to hang out on Monday. I fly out on Tuesday afternoon and will land in Nashville around midnight on Wednesday and plan to sleep all day Wednesday when I get home LOL!
I think when I look back on this week it will be fun. Just so much stress from the interviews and then trying to make this last ditch effort to get in was a lot at once. I've been more relaxed the last couple of days and even though I didn't win anything in the tournaments I had a lot more fun playing them than I did the 1st two days of the trip. And since I've learned where to go to catch the shuttles and I'm not walking all around Vegas in the mid day heat or paying $15 a trip for the shuttles its been better as well. Hopefully when I get back I'll have a couple of jobs lined up and can pick which one I like best and then go back to playing poker part time and maybe even enjoy playing again. But hey at least I finally gave Vegas and the WSOP a shot. It was never my plan 2.5 years ago after the WPT event to never go back to work, just to get out of the job I had because I hated it.
Anyway this update is way longer than I meant for it to be. Hopefully I get to sleep in today and then hang out and have some fun around town tomorrow before my trip back. I'm not looking forward to the flight back. This was the longest flight I've ever had and it was the roughest one I've had. We had turbulance for almost 2 hours of the 4 hour trip.
Oh and another thing. You know those massage people at the poker events. I'm sure they are the airport and stuff like that but I've never had reason to get one before this week. I had a 20 minute massage and I thought the guy was trying to kill me. He put me in arm bars, punched me, i swear he might have kicked me a couple times as well. But when he was through I felt great somehow. Until 4 hours after the massage when I came back and sat down in a chair and my entire back was sore to the touch. IDK what he did to make my muscles loosen up like they did but man it made me sore as well. OK thats it. I'm going to grab a bite to eat and crash.
l8r guys
Another thing thats been weird is I bet I've heard 10 different languaes spoken while I've been here and seen more Asians in 1 week than I ever have in my life. I know Asians probably tend to gamble more than anyone but I bet 20% of the people I've seen in Vegas have been Asians.
Tomorrow is an off day. Gordon is back in town and Moki flies out tomorrow evening and I think Marco is free as well so hopefully we're all going to get to hang out on Monday. I fly out on Tuesday afternoon and will land in Nashville around midnight on Wednesday and plan to sleep all day Wednesday when I get home LOL!
I think when I look back on this week it will be fun. Just so much stress from the interviews and then trying to make this last ditch effort to get in was a lot at once. I've been more relaxed the last couple of days and even though I didn't win anything in the tournaments I had a lot more fun playing them than I did the 1st two days of the trip. And since I've learned where to go to catch the shuttles and I'm not walking all around Vegas in the mid day heat or paying $15 a trip for the shuttles its been better as well. Hopefully when I get back I'll have a couple of jobs lined up and can pick which one I like best and then go back to playing poker part time and maybe even enjoy playing again. But hey at least I finally gave Vegas and the WSOP a shot. It was never my plan 2.5 years ago after the WPT event to never go back to work, just to get out of the job I had because I hated it.
Anyway this update is way longer than I meant for it to be. Hopefully I get to sleep in today and then hang out and have some fun around town tomorrow before my trip back. I'm not looking forward to the flight back. This was the longest flight I've ever had and it was the roughest one I've had. We had turbulance for almost 2 hours of the 4 hour trip.
Oh and another thing. You know those massage people at the poker events. I'm sure they are the airport and stuff like that but I've never had reason to get one before this week. I had a 20 minute massage and I thought the guy was trying to kill me. He put me in arm bars, punched me, i swear he might have kicked me a couple times as well. But when he was through I felt great somehow. Until 4 hours after the massage when I came back and sat down in a chair and my entire back was sore to the touch. IDK what he did to make my muscles loosen up like they did but man it made me sore as well. OK thats it. I'm going to grab a bite to eat and crash.
l8r guys
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